The Impact of Research and Development on Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Digitization and Digital transformation

The authors have studied numerous sources of raw data within multiple databases, such as the EU datasets, which provide a series of indicators that can lead to an empirical approach involving a quantitative approximation. This allowed them to elaborate a set of subsequent analyses between the Pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 periods, and thus to explore the possible relationships between the selected variables.

Prof. Antonio De Lucas Ancillo joined the Economics, Business and Tourism Faculty at Alcala University in 2003. He holds BS and MA in Telecommunication Engineering and PhD in Business degrees (Madrid Polytechnic University). His academic experience includes: Schools of Tourism and Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business and Polytechnic. He published 7 books, coordinated 28 studies on the information society and ICTs. Elected President of the IT sectorial area of AMETIC during 2016–2018.

Prof. Antonio De Lucas Ancillo joined the Economics, Business and Tourism Faculty at Alcala University in 2003. He holds BS and MA in Telecommunication Engineering and PhD in Business degrees (Madrid Polytechnic University). His academic experience includes: Schools of Tourism and Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business and Polytechnic. He published 7 books, coordinated 28 studies on the information society and ICTs. Elected President of the IT sectorial area of AMETIC during 2016–2018. More than twenty-five years of experience, working in consulting, services, industry and public administration (Indra, Tecnocom, everis and IBM, CEMEX and DoD), participating in ICT business projects worldwide.

Associate Prof. Sorin Gavrila Gavrila joined the Economics, Business and Tourism Faculty at Alcala University in 2019. He holds BS in Business Informatics, MA in International MBA degrees and PhD in Business Organization (Alcala University). Since September 2017 has been working on multiple international Research and Development projects regarding Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Data Analytics, Cybersecurity, Air Traffic Management and Unmanned/Drones Traffic Management within industrial applications at Indra Company.